[RESOLVED] Encoding Characters Question

[condoug]

Hi all

I use WYSIWYG editors with some of my sites that I build and I keep coming across the same problem.

When I POST the page content to save it, I want to ensure that all characters within my text content such as & < > etc are converted to the correct equivalent such as &amp; &lt; etc however when I apply htmlspecialchars to my POST as such:

$content = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($_POST['textcontent']));

This converts the <p> tags and <strong> tags (and all other html tags) within the source of my content.

Is there a way around this?

I.e. I only want to convert these characters within my text content and not the html tags.

Thanks for reading

[dagon]

this tread looks promising: Replacing characters with html codes, but excluding html tags

[condoug]

Thanks dagon!

Sorted.